elpachuco

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by elpachuco 12y ago
>>Based on what you interpret as an implicit acceptance of slavery in comments on HN, which I guess you just sort of assume must be made by mostly white Americans?<< Occam's razor says that it probably is white Americans. I
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by elpachuco 12y ago
You would think. But every time someone mentions here in HN about how USA slavery was bad there are always people coming out and saying that other countries used to do it too and imply that since others did it it was OK if the US did it. H
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by elpachuco 12y ago
It is really annoying to hear so many opinions here choosing to believe an alternate version simply because it sounds better to them rather than because of any actual evidence. (Are we still in Hacker News or is it a Sunday thing?) It feels
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by elpachuco 12y ago
It would be better if you used evidence when choosing what you believe rather then rely on your personal preferences and biases.
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by elpachuco 12y ago
Although it looks like the Peso sign I'm not sure it really is. Why would you put the Peso sign in a coin. It probably is something else and du to wear and tear now it looks like a Peso sign. Look at this other coin for example: http:
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by elpachuco 12y ago
>>No idea why the pesos sign became the dollar sign, but I'd image it may have something to do with the Spaniards being around long before the English in the Americas That is the whole point of this article . It tells you where t
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by elpachuco 12y ago
Until you take out your claws. Then who is meek and mild? I assure you, you are a danger to humanity!
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by elpachuco 12y ago
>>I've been following Jonathan Blow for a while now. He has a reputation for being condescending. If you follow him a Twitter then you might come to the same conclusion. I think that's neither here nor there in the context o
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by elpachuco 12y ago
>>In your scenario, what will happen to GPG? The world just loses this essential asset? I say f*ck the world.
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by elpachuco 12y ago
"Feo y sentido como los jarros de Oaxaca." Just a useful saying in Mexican Spanish when you want to poke fun at someone that has a thin skin. In english: Ugly and easy to break (thin skinned) like the mugs of Oaxaca.
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by elpachuco 12y ago
100-500 LOC per day is normal. It is not. You are not writing a novel here. Yes, most of the time is spent thinking. Some days there is no coding because it is spent on just trying to figure out what to do.
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by elpachuco 12y ago
Not a counter argument at all. You've just shown that any more time on you will be wasted. There will always be types like you. Nothing to do but write you off.
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by elpachuco 12y ago
Anti gravity engines. Warp engines. Replicators like those of Star Trek.
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by elpachuco 12y ago
Godwin's law should be taken out the back and shot along with the person uttering it. Is a lazy form of attempting to neutralize any argument a person makes by simply mentioning Godwin's law.
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by elpachuco 12y ago
Hyperbole Much? Left behind from where? Seriously, a couple of parlor tricks are not gonna leave anybody behind. Use a computer and devote your higher cognitive skills for more productive endeavors. Once you know the basics of how to do som
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by elpachuco 12y ago
Says you. Exhibit A: Mexico. A country with vast potential being held back by their corrupt politicians.
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by elpachuco 12y ago
Stress increases your blood pressure, releases adrenaline, and forces your body to go into overdrive. Chronic stress will wear down your body faster. Simple analogy: Drinking acidic fluids will wear down your enamel. Do it for a long time a
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by elpachuco 12y ago
Given the track record the USA has with liberating people (Afghanistan, Iraq, Libia) I'd say thanks but no thanks. From my point of view it doesn't really look that the USA is trying to liberate anybody. Just an empire looking out
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by elpachuco 12y ago
>>Lest you think I’m taking sides already, let me stress that it’s not at all clear that AC is actually better than DC No, it has been settled for almost a hundred years that AC, for long distance transmission, is the best. Too bad he
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by elpachuco 12y ago
I really don't understand what you are saying. Are you saying that he fired upon his own people and got a medal because of it?
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by elpachuco 12y ago
Murphy's law: "If it can happen, it will happen"
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by elpachuco 12y ago
Only to become yet another racket. And maybe even more harmful than the last one.
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by elpachuco 12y ago
Didn't see this till now. Well, the twin towers are no more so that is out. I'm an engineer and also have a computer science degree. I "invent" plenty of software and I'm currently doing research on AI on my spare t
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by elpachuco 12y ago
So if I thought that at 20 religion was a farce and I still think that at 50, have I wasted my life. In the mean time I have learned and discovered lots about the universe. Have I still wasted my life. And also, I still dislike having kids
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by elpachuco 12y ago
When I was nine I wanted to be an astronaut, buy the twin towers, be part of a band, an inventor, a scientist.
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by elpachuco 12y ago
>>We are on the cusp of solving natural language understanding Why do you think this? Is it just a feel or is there some company that is really close. As another user mentioned in this thread natural language understanding seems to be
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by elpachuco 12y ago
https://twitter.com/Arubin Who knows if he still checks it though.
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by elpachuco 12y ago
Well don't leave us hanging. Let us know your guesses. I'm really interested to know. Several other people in this thread seem to know and yet are not saying anything. Edit: I found this quote from [1]. "Jessica Lessin at The
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by elpachuco 12y ago
>>In 1984, Alley—along with Oleg Jakubowicz and William Wickes, both of whom had also been in the audience that day—finally got the experiment to run. It worked just as Wheeler had imagined: measurements made in the present can create
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by elpachuco 12y ago
>>This is what completes genius. Not it doesn't. People are different. Some more different than others. Frankly, it sounds like an autistic person is being described.

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